What reads as a set of meditations looking back on a hard life in old age, while it might date (in part) to 900s Scandinavia, is hardly a “Viking code of ethics.” But you have to read it to know that, and Hávamál gets thumped more than read, not unlike a Bible. More at Youtube: youtu.be/8FPPA9zHB48
I wonder when will Norwegian media start writing a bit more about regional cooperation within NB8 - including a focus on the interwoven Baltic Sea region. An area close-by, yet in some ways still so far away on the average Norwegian mental map. news.err.ee/1609958387/8...
maybe if humanity outsources all functional, formal, boring writing to LLMs then we get to finally embrace total grammatical anarchy as signs of humans, redo the language in leetspeak and slangs not yet imagined -- watch me produce next token with so much perplexity that oceans evaporate
Kjenner du en student som kunne hatt glede av Nasjonalbibliotekets lokalhistoriske masterstipend?
Videresend lenka til dem!
www.nb.no/forskning/lo...
Å, den kammen. Litt merkeleg stavemåte på namnet der.
A find photograph of a small, rectangular lead plaque, Torksey find DB 1620, from the Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.
It's Viking Camps #FindsFriday! I've had a few weeks away, with both the Jorvik Festival and half term, so we'll get back to it today... and in honour of yesterday's World Book Day (heavily norse-themed in this household) I thought we'd look at a find with some writing.
This is Torksey DB 1620. /1
Cooljams sounds like someone Bob Mortimer would encounter, as told in one of his stories for 'Would I Lie to You'.
This looks great!
Cover of new Finnish anthology of Old English literature
This just out: a Finnish-language collection of Old English literature. 'When the Swords Sang' includes two chapters I co-authored, and I also tried my hand at translating bits of the A-S Chronicle. Publisher: Gaudeamus.
the stemma codicum of any texts that survive the Digital Dark Ages will be like
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of wikipedia nukecraterus N. 47
Oh my. Lots of people will have to reset and reinstall, it seems. Quite a botch-up. In the meantime, I will be thinking about all the piled-up work. Of course, the timing of these things is never good but right now it’s … terrible. Too much work, tons of missed deadlines. Too little time.
Evening comes, problem persists. And I am a bit amazed that we have not received any actual information from the Uni admin on this (only brief updates on the IT page that they’re working on fixing the problem). How many hours of work lost today altogether?
It’s quite something when a system update(?) leads to several thousand Uni Oslo staff being unable to access their work computers. Screens black, access blocked.
I dag kan du se to av Norges mest kunnskapsrike middelalderforskere snakke om kirken i middelalderen! Jeg er ordstyrer. www.nb.no/tv/kyrkja-so...
Noe har gått galt (og vil gå galt?) når overarbeida ansatte ved en stor offentlig institusjon må gjennom dette. 2025: overgang fra tidligere saksbehandlings- og arkivsystem til nytt (midlertidig) system. 2026: overgang fra nytt midlertidig system til nytt nytt system.
I hope they won’t do what they did to poor Freya.
I tallskogen på Estlands Östersjökust finns Arvo Pärt Centret. Olov Amelin har besökt den världskände tonsättarens museion och lovsjunger ett besöksmål i världsklass vackert gestaltat i trä, glas och sten.
Läs i Utställningskritik: utstallningskritik.se/2026-1/en-pl...
I just read this one about our wealth fund. I hoped they at least used some dedicated ai, but seems like llms is the main thing here as well
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/n...
“Meir og betre”, seier dei.
There’s a big and underappreciated rift between what liberation means to people shaped by Eastern European history, where the US did not intervene but was often yearned for, and elsewhere, where it did intervene, often with disastrous consequences.
New in Early Medieval Europe: what role did animals play in early medieval medicinal and well-being practices? A study by Holly Miller and Christina Lee (£)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside
Norway comes for the #TechBros
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
Interested in the settlement history of the Baltic Sea region? There’s a free online course with the University of Tartu, starting next week: sisu.ut.ee/eestijuured/...
Eating your own words
BnF MS Latin 16744; Bible; 12th century; f.81r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Most read news in some Nordic countries today.
Norway: "Royal family"
Denmark: "Parliament election"
Iceland: "THEY CHANGED THE BUTTER AT THE HOSPITAL CAFETERIA"
Would a rollout of runes actually be bad for the economy?
Wood relief which shows Saint George as a knight in armour and a flat hat riding a horse while raising his sword aloft. The horse is trampling on a four-legged dragon lying on his back with his wings stretching out from underneath him. From the mouth of the dragon, a broken lance is protruding. In the background, the walls of a city can be seen, and in the middle of the right-hand side of the rlief is a young girl praying on her knees.
For those who need some inspiration to slay their own personal dragons today.
[Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, D1267; previously in Stokkemarke Church, c.1500]
Og hva med Trandum i dag? Det som de kaller “utlendingsinternat”. Kjent for umenneskelig behandling og fortsatt i drift. www.nettavisen.no/tvangsretur/...
